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Melvin Jules Bukiet

Melvin Jules Bukiet is a novelist and professor at Sarah Lawrence College.

A Year to Forget

A Year to Forget

Drop 2020, and live in a year worth remembering

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Monday, May 04, 2020
By the Content of Its Characters

By the Content of Its Characters

On rereading “War and Peace” in the age of radical sensitivity

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Friday, February 03, 2017
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One Day in the Life of Melvin Jules Bukiet

A Manhattan writer runs afoul of the local penal system and lives to tell the tale

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Thursday, March 01, 2007
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Wonder Bread

Come with us to a place called Brooklyn, where the stories are half-baked and their endings bland and soft

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Saturday, September 01, 2007
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Custom and Law

After the death of his father, a not-notably observant Jew turns to the mourning rituals of his faith

by Melvin Jules Bukiet | Thursday, September 01, 2005

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

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A Mother’s Secret

by Werner Gundersheimer

In this 2011 essay, Werner Gundersheimer remembers his mother’s efforts to preserve a version of his childhood free of the Holocaust’s painful scars. “We all know that memory is selective, and that the mind blots out what it can’t bear to retain,” he writes. “For [Mom], the past was always present, and the only way to keep it at bay was to steer clear of it.”

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